Chapter XLVIII

An ivory-faldstool there was set. Marsile
The order gives to bring a book before it,
Mohammed's law and that of Tervagant,
The Spanish Saracen thus took his oath:
"If in the rear-guard Count Rolland be found,
He will attack him there with all his men;
And, if it may be, there Rolland shall die."
Ganelon answers:--"May [our treaty thrive!]"
Aoi.